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I’m sure a fair-few people have read this title and rolled their eyes. Really, I can’t blame you; there’s a reason QTE<\/strong>s are hated. However, I’m here to convince you that when used correctly, every game developer’s little guilty pleasure can actually be fantastic. <\/p>\n QTEs (or their Sunday name, ‘Quick Time Events’) revolve around bombarding the player with split-second button prompts. Their first well-known usages are commonly traced back to classic laserdisc games like Dragon’s Lair<\/strong> and Road Blaster<\/strong>. Said laserdisc games were more reminiscent of movies with button prompts than a games, mind you. It would be another 10-or-so years until QTEs would fully cross-over to more traditional games like Sega’s Die Hard Arcade<\/strong> or Shenmue<\/strong> (with Shenmue’s director Yu Suzuki being credited with coining the actual term “Quick Time Event”).\n<\/p>\n So why are these little events so unpopular? To really understand what makes a good QTE, we’re going to have to give some examples of terrible ones, first.<\/p>\n Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n I’m sure a fair-few people have read this title and rolled their eyes. Really, I can’t blame you; there’s a reason QTEs are hated. However, I’m here to convince you that when used correctly, every game developer’s little guilty pleas…<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1900,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"In defence of QTEs: Why gaming's most derided mechanic is good, actually - ITTeacherITFreelance.hk","description":"I’m sure a fair-few people have read this title and rolled their eyes. Really, I can’t blame you; there's a reason QTEs are hated. However, I’"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,68],"tags":[10324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319701,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319700\/revisions\/319701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\\\"IT\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2](\\\"http:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo2-2.png\\\"){kind=logo}
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